[Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe?

[Rob Groner]

Faster than I expected, I've become somewhat disenchanted by the openups-usb driver.

So, if I write my own subdriver for our UPS...how quickly can I expect that it will be incorporated in some downloadable version of nut that a user can then use?

The main reason I ask is because I have to include a guide for getting the UPS to work in Linux.  If I can simply stipulate that they have to download NUT version 2.xx.xx and the driver will be included, then that makes things a lot easier than having to provide the driver ourselves along with the procedure for them to add it to the NUT source, etc.  I'm not talking about in a package, I mean just a part of the sources that they can download, extract, compile, install.

I have just under two months to have a guide a customer can use to make the UPS shutdown their Linux PC.  If that won't be enough time to get something into the NUT trunk, then I'll have to make-do with the openups-usb driver, and work our own driver later.

I've read through the 3.9 Source Code Management section of the dev guide.  I'm much more familiar with svn than git, though I know that needs to change.

Sincerely,
Rob Groner

Software Engineer
RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc.
ISO9001 and AS9100 Certified
Ph: 814-234-8087
www.rtd.com<http://www.rtd.com/>

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